Good impressions
I had to give a presentation to the class at uni that I am supposed to be running extra help tutorials in...the class I am failing rather spectacularly.....needless to say there was a great deal of anticipation for this presentation. I forgot about it till a week before it was due when my lecturer informed me that it was in fact week 9 and not as I has thought week 7, he then asked me what the topic was for this thoroughly researched presentation I would be giving.......the words baboon and hybrid were written on the board behind his head so I grabed at them like a life raft on the titanic, "The hybridization of baboons" I replied with confidence. "Well he says that will be very interesting I recently did a lot of work on that area" - oh crap my head thought as the life raft I had grabbed began to loose its bouyancy, oh crap.
I was sick with the bloody flu for that entire week.
I was still working on this presentation at 2.30 in the morning on the day I was to give it. -
Needless to say this was not likely to be winning awards.....my voice dissapeared about three slides into it..and I spent about 5 minutes coughing a disturbing lung shaped glob into a tissue whilst my class mates attemtped to determine if I was dying or merely demonstrating the mating calls of said baboons.
Despite all of these things I believe the presentation was a success...at least it probably was until some utter bastard in the class got smart and started asking insane questions about the genetic variation between hybrids and thier parent troops???????I made something up on the spot and think he bought it.....I mummbled and used some long words and droped some numbers in there too...
Still it was done and my lecturer seemed impressed (although probably less at the presentation than at my ability not to die during it) so on the whole I think this qualifies as good news....news out of the top drawer....well at least it did until I made the mistake of pressing the eject button on the departments expensive laptop to which it responded by hissing at me, shutting down, and refusing to work again till I left the room!
Why oh why?
I was sick with the bloody flu for that entire week.
I was still working on this presentation at 2.30 in the morning on the day I was to give it. -
Needless to say this was not likely to be winning awards.....my voice dissapeared about three slides into it..and I spent about 5 minutes coughing a disturbing lung shaped glob into a tissue whilst my class mates attemtped to determine if I was dying or merely demonstrating the mating calls of said baboons.
Despite all of these things I believe the presentation was a success...at least it probably was until some utter bastard in the class got smart and started asking insane questions about the genetic variation between hybrids and thier parent troops???????I made something up on the spot and think he bought it.....I mummbled and used some long words and droped some numbers in there too...
Still it was done and my lecturer seemed impressed (although probably less at the presentation than at my ability not to die during it) so on the whole I think this qualifies as good news....news out of the top drawer....well at least it did until I made the mistake of pressing the eject button on the departments expensive laptop to which it responded by hissing at me, shutting down, and refusing to work again till I left the room!
Why oh why?
posted by jinx at 11:42 PM
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